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“The overall pattern features below normal temperatures, and there will be a risk for a few storm systems at times for the next couple weeks,” Frank said.

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Frank and his colleagues will be keeping an eye on the systems, but he emphasized that getting “a significant storm with snow” in the Boston and Providence corridor is “rare” this time of year. The odds for snow increase toward interior New England, Frank said.

“It happens,” he said. “But even in a cold and stormy pattern, it’s very difficult for Boston to receive a significant snowfall in November.”

The average date for Boston to receive its first inch of snow is December 11, he said.